Choice of tools

All projects use different tools, carcode is hosted on Google Code and uses Subversion, being coded in Python it is cross-platform.

I use Linux (Madriva 2008 Spring) and Git for versioning with git-svn for carcode subversion push, as for IDE I use a plain editor, Kate, I used VIM before but found Kate a bit more productive. I also like Nedit. I tried Eclipse + Pydev but I find it too big and I don't use most of the features it offers. I tried KDevelop but I didn't like it, it feels like a plain editor (for python, for C++ Qt is a good IDE), I tried Wings trial which I found comfortable but is not OSS although its price is affordable.

I usually don't use autocompletion features that offers certain IDEs, I know OpenGL well and have books at hand (OpenGL Game Programming), pygame documentation is all I need, any other thing missing may be found in the python shell by using dir() on the object, help() or internet.

As for development machine currently I'm using an HP pavilion dv6000 series laptop, which has an Intel core 2 duo processor (1.8ghz), I started working on the project on my later HP Pavilion ze4900 with a Celeron M (1.4ghz), I have an old test machine, an IBM ThinkPad 460XL with a Pentium 133Mhz just for the kicks, I tested other projects of mine on this machine when optimizing. Is really handy for that :).

As for Windows development I have windows XP dual-boot, I use Eric4 and msys-git (a windows port of git using msys), although I barely use windows, mostly rare windows development and some games that don't have a windows port or don't run under wine, but I usually buy games with linux support (such as doom3 or Neverwinter Nights) or play OSS games.

Additionally I have a host of virtual machines, one with Ubuntu (for deb packaging), other with OpenBSD and other with ReactOS, I will probably add more later (FreeBSD).

What do you use?